Grønlandisering: Grønlands elite 2000-2009

Ankersen, Pia Vedel; Christiansen, Peter Munk

doi:10.7146/politica.v45i2.69779

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“…There are about 80 towns and settlements spread along the western and southern coastline and a few settlements on the east coast and you can only travel from one town to the next by boat or airplane as no two towns are connected by road. In addition, very few persons make up the power elites and nepotism is a constant threat (Ankersen & Christiansen, 2013;Christiansen & Togeby, 2003).…”

Section: Opportunity Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Kunuk took it to the streets of Greenland: single-issue protests in a young online democracy

Jørgensen

2016

Information, Communication & Society

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Single-issue protests and online mobilization have proliferated in the wake of social media. While significant ground has been covered regarding the changing possibilities for mobilization, the question of how specific circumstances condition the political impact of online mobilization and public protests has received much less attention. During the last couple of years, Greenlanders have increasingly employed Facebook to mobilize the populace and arrange public demonstrations with noteworthy results. Arguing that single-issue protests cannot be separated from the issues they are concerned with, the paper explores how a single and potential trivial political issue-a new parliament building-developed from a prestige project supported by a nearly unanimous Parliament into a public-contested issue and a failed political project. The paper invokes Actor-Network Theory to account for the trajectory of the issue and how it was translated along the way as actors built and broke alliances. The concepts of mobilizing structures, opportunity structures and framing processes are employed to shed light on the conditions of possibilities for the emergence, development and impact of the protest against the parliament building. Finally, the paper discusses social media's impact on the image of politically engaged Inuit and on the power relations between citizens and parliament in Greenland. This discussion is of paramount importance as Greenlanders are struggling with their colonial heritage while they are constructing Greenlandic democracy.

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Section: Opportunity Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%